We're currently finalizing 18.5 release of F-Secure Computer Protection and Computer Protection Premium end-point clients. As usual, the clients will automatically update themselves into the latest version after the availability date.
Product notifications migrated to use new toast / flyer
Product notifications are now using a new toast / flyer mechanism.
On Windows 10, the notifications will first appear on screen, and will then be accessible from Action Center as well as Event History. On Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, the notifications will look similar to Windows 10 notifications without Action Center integration.
In some cases, the way how the events are generated has changed. When a manual or scheduled scan is started, an event will be stored, recording the beginning of this operation, e.g. "Manual virus scan was started". When the operation ends, the original event will be updated with the result of the operation, e.g. "Manual virus scan did not find any harmful items".
Connection Control: use referer information when returning to web shop after transaction
This is an improvement to the Banking Protection use case where the used web shop is missing the safety rating. When payment is made from this kind of site, usually a net bank/payment service site is opened which triggers banking protection session. When payment is done, browser tries to return to original web shop to finish the transaction, i.e. tell that the payment was done and shipping the order can proceed. However, if the site has no safety rating and banking protection session is still on, the site will be blocked. This improvement uses browser's referer information to allow returning to unrated web shop if there exists a bank if the chain of referers. So this will fix some of the cases where user could not complete shopping payment.
Profile visibility in client UI
We have added the profile assignment to be visible on the client UI. Under Common Settings | Updates the detailed list of updates includes information on the profile the client has last taken into use. Similar information was previously available in logs and we raised the visibility of this information due to popular request.
GDPR-related improvements
We have double-checked our client GDPR compatibility, and this shows as changes in the installation flow. We clarified the questions on use of your data, and made opt-out a default.
Fix: DataGuard extra labels on GUI
The user interface changes with the previous release introduced a view on the DeepGuard tab in settings where users would see an extra DataGuard label. This is now shown only to Premium users with matching settings.
About the future
You may have noticed there was an unusually long time between this release and the previous. We have been preparing in the background a major re-design of our installation to make it faster, not requiring a network connection and be remotely installable for PSB use cases. We've made great progress on it with the focus and are looking forward to introducing that to you within the upcoming months.
